Charles Manson in prison in Corcoran, Calif., in a photo taken last summer. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)

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Corrections officials in California quoted Charles Manson's own words when they denied him parole for a 12th time yesterday. "I am special. I am not like the average inmate. I have put five people in the grave," Manson told a prison psychologist late last year, according to a report read aloud during the hearing. "I've been in prison most of my life. I'm a very dangerous man." It was the first time that Manson, who is serving a life sentence for nine murders, has admitted to any guilt.

Manson has accumulated 108 serious disciplinary violations in prison since 1971, 35 of them violent, and seven of them since his last hearing in 2007. He made numerous calls from a cell phone he was caught with in 2010, and is currently being held in isolation after being caught with a prison-manufactured weapon last October. He skipped yesterday's hearing, and the next one has been scheduled for 2027, when he will be 92.

I think we should get a good LSD therapist to give Charlie some more acid, and see if he can't be led out of that sick mental maze he put himself in. Might as well send him to his death sane.

BradCS

Apr 12, 2012 2:10 PM CDT

I wish they would parole this POS so he can see how not dangerous he is. It would be a bigger punishment and far more funny to have him bagging groceries while people laugh at him, then for him to think he's this super dangerous criminal in prison. What a joke. I would like to see him die with a defeated ego. Start calling him Carl Mason and tell him you don't know who he is.